Stefano Gherardini (1695–1755) was an Italian painter, prolific in painting genre scenes or

bambocciate The ''Bamboccianti'' were Genre works, genre painters active in Rome from about 1625 until the end of the seventeenth century. Most were Netherlands, Dutch and Flemings, Flemish artists who brought existing traditions of depicting peasant subject ...

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He was a pupil of

Giuseppe Gambarini Giuseppe Gambarini (1680 – 11 September 1725) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was a pupil of the painters Lorenzo Pasinelli and Cesare Gennari. Biography Knowledge of this charter-member of ...

. He was born and died in Bologna. He is described by Pietro Zani as a ''painter of capricci, caricatures, di pittocchi, of charlatans and all things recognized under the title of bambocciate''"pittore di capricci, cioè di caricature, di pitocchi, di ciarlatani, cose tutte riconosciute per lo più sotto il titolo di bambocciate", from P. Zani, Enc. metodica critica-ragionata delle belle arti, IX, Parma 1822, p. 363; quoted i
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entry on Gherardini, by Ivana Corsetti, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 53 (2000).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gherardini, Stefano 1695 births 1755 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bologna Italian genre painters 18th-century Italian male artists Artists from the Papal States